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Crucifixion—The Archaeological Evidence

By Vassilios Tzaferis
044 From ancient literary sources we know that tens of thousands of people were crucified in the Roman Empire. In Palestine alone, the figure ran into the thousands. Yet until 1968 not a single victim of this horrifying method of execution had...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1985

Sussita Awaits the Spade

The largest archaeological site on the east bank of the Sea of Galilee was once a thriving city of the Decapolis
By Vassilios Tzaferis
050 051 Most stories in BAR are about sites that have been excavated. In fact, I can’t recall a single story about a place that hadn’t been extensively excavated. This story—about Sussita/...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1990

25 Years of Kicking Up Some Dust

By Steven Feldman
026 “We shun controversy,” BAR editor Hershel Shanks likes to tell visitors to our offices. Yeah, right. BAR was not founded as a muckraking publication, but in our day we’ve had our share of causes, controversies, battles—even an international...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2001

Turmoil at the Harvard Semitic Museum

Did Martin Peretz accuse director Stager of anti-Semitism? Is Peretz guilty of libel?
By Steven Feldman
064 The entire staff of the Harvard Semitic Museum—home of one of this country’s most important archaeological collections—has been dismissed, leading to a rancorous contretemps concerning the institution’s leadership and its future direction...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1994

A Pilgrimage to the Site of the Swine Miracle

By Vassilios Tzaferis
045 Almost from the beginning of Christianity, the area around the Sea of Galilee has been a major focus of Christian pilgrimage, a focus second only to Jerusalem. To the Galilee flocked not only pilgrims, but also monks and scholars, searching...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1989

BAS Seminar Is Featured on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

By Steven Feldman
077 Four participants in a Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) seminar on the Dead Sea Scrolls were interviewed in a MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour report this past spring. The four had attended a BAS seminar at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1993

The Short List: The New Testament Figures Known to History

By Steven FeldmanNancy E. Roth
034 The relatively plain ossuary (bone box) described in the preceding article by André Lemaire is doubly important to the study of early Christianity. It is the earliest archaeological artifact ever found that refers to Jesus; in fact, it is the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2002

The Monastery of the Cross: Where Heaven and Earth Meet

By Vassilios Tzaferis
032 Many years ago, before I had married and gone to work as an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, I lived for five years in the Monastery of the Cross as a Greek Orthodox monk. So I know the complex well. According to legend, the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2001

The Scrolls Are Here!

Library of Congress is first of three American venues
By Steven Feldman
070 Walk into the Madison Building of the Library of Congress (LC), turn left just inside the entrance, and you can gaze at what less than two years ago only a small handful of scholars were allowed to see: a dozen Dead Sea Scroll fragments from...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1993

Bethlehem…Of Course

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
041 040 Steve Mason has probably made the best case possible that we should adopt an “agnostic” position regarding the birthplace of Jesus. But although Mason has examined the literary data...
Bible Review, February 2000

Return to Aphek

By Steven Feldman
052 053 “You can count the centuries as we go down the stairs. We’re going from the 16th century A.D. to the 13th century B.C.,” says excavator Moshe Kochavi as he leads me to some steps inside...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2002

The Garden Tomb and the Misfortunes of an Inscription

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
054 On November 7, 1889, the Northern Christian Advocate (Syracuse, New York) published a note from an anonymous correspondent in Jerusalem: “There are strange rumors afloat about an inscription found at St. Stephen’s [St. Étienne’s...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986

Where Was the Capitol in Roman Jerusalem?

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
When Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, the site of what would one day be the Holy Sepulchre Church was an abandoned stone quarry. A catacomb cut into the western side of the quarry attests that the quarry had fallen into disuse. The innermost chamber of the catacomb contains kokhim tombs. These deep recesses into the rock, typical of the first centuries B.C. and A.D., can still be seen behind the Syrian Chapel in the Holy Sepulchre Church today.
Bible Review, December 1997

Return to Aroer

A trip through the ages with the ageless Avraham Biran
By Steven Feldman
050 050 051 “Do you see those pottery sherds?” asks 92-year-old Avraham Biran as he points with his cane to the sun-baked earth of Aroer, an...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2002

Where Was James Buried?

Making sense of contradictory accounts
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
034 Controversy over the burial of James, the brother of Jesus, is nothing new. As early as the fourth century A.D., the location of James’s tomb was disputed. In the words of the church father Jerome, writing in 392 A.D.: “Some monks think James...
Bible Review, June 2003

Banias Dig Reveals King’s Palace

[But which king?]
By John F. WilsonVassilios Tzaferis
054 “Trim the balk!” we cried to the volunteers, encouraging them to clean the sides of their excavation square. As volunteers dig down, they leave the balks standing to preserve the layers of debris deposits. The balks are critical for dating...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1998

Return to Lachish

By Steven Feldman
046 “It feels good to be back,” says David Ussishkin as we approach the impressive mound of Lachish, a major military outpost of the Judahite kingdom that fell to a massive Assyrian onslaught in 701 B.C. The Assyrian king Sennacherib celebrated...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2002

Fishers of Fish, Fishers of Men

What we know of the first disciples from their profession
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
What sorts of men were Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John—crude, ignorant laborers or savvy and practical men of the world? The reliability of much of the Gospels rides on the answer.
Bible Review, June 1999

Inscribed “To God Jesus Christ”

Early Christian Prayer Hall Found in Megiddo Prison
By Vassilios Tzaferis
038 In the late 1990s, authorities at the prison that sits near the base of Tel Megiddo in northern Israel decided they needed more room. Accordingly, an addition was planned within the prison compound and work commenced. It was not long, however...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2007

Prisca and Aquila

Traveling tentmakers and church builders
By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor
040 Aquila and his wife Priscilla are the most prominent couple involved in the first-century expansion of Christianity. They were Paul’s hosts at Corinth (Acts 18:2–3). Subsequently they directed house-churches at Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:19)...
Bible Review, December 1992

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